Anton Brugmans

Anton Brugmans , also Antonius Brugmans, (* 1732 ; † 1789 ) was a Dutch physicist. From 1767 he was professor of philosophy and mathematics in Groningen .

Brugmans advocated a two-fluid theory of magnetism, as did the Swede Johan Wilcke . The fluids corresponded to the two magnetic poles and were named after him ustral and boreal. It corresponded to the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was also widespread at the time ( Robert Symmer and others). He made many experiments on magnetism, for example the inclination and direction of the magnetic field in space, and discovered that magnets repel bismuth ( diamagnetism ).

Brugmans had also been a professor at Franeker from 1755 to 1766 . There he was a student of Bernoulli - and Wolff -Schülers Samuel King was. His predecessor in Groningen was the Swiss Nicolaas Engelhard (1696–1765) and one of his predecessors in Groningen was the famous mathematician Johann I Bernoulli (1695 to 1705). In 1783 he was elected a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

He was the father of the botanist Sebald Justinus Brugmans .

Fonts

Tentamina philosophica de materia magnetica, Franeker 1765
Antonii Brugmans Magnetismus, seu, De affinitatibus magneticis observationes academicæ, 1778
Observations on the relationships of the magnet, Leipzig 1781 (translated and annotated by Christian Gotthold Eschenbach ), Reprint Olms 2004, digitized
Philosophical experiments on magnetic matter: and their effect in iron and magnet, Leipzig 1784

literature

MJ Petry, MR Wielema: Antonius Brugmans (1732–1789). Bruggenbouwer in de Filosofie, in HA Kop, JA van Ruler, AJ Vanderjagt, Zeer knowledgeable professors. Beoefening van de Filosofie in Groningen van 1614 tot 1996, Hilversum: Veloren 1997, pp. 135-148

Web links

CERL

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 51.

personal data
SURNAME	Brugmans, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brugmans, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1732
DATE OF DEATH	1789

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 51.